Daily Archives: February 5, 2016

A UN panel has ruled the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange is being “arbitrarily detained” in the UK and should be allowed to go free. The UK foreign secretary has branded it as “ridiculous”. The Victoria Derbyshire programme looks at how he came to be confined in London’s Ecuadorian embassy for more than three years. BBC News Video

Friday on the NewsHour, Democrats square off in a contentious debate as Republican candidates jockey for survival days before the New Hampshire primary. Also: A report from the epicenter of the Zika outbreak, the many lives of Syrian refugees living in Lebanon, the political analysis of Shields and Brooks, the psychology of sports teams and their fans and the end of trust in America.

Amid the chaos of Friday’s deadly crane collapse in lower Manhattan, Ann Margaret Kansfield an FDNY chaplain rushed to the aid of a shivering bride standing in her white gown in the snow and married Nesh Pillay and her groom Aaron Vanderhoff. Video New York Daily News

Feb. 4 — BP Capital Founder T. Boone Pickens discusses the U.S. economy, risk of recession and the price and production of oil. He speaks on “Bloomberg ‹GO›.” Watch Bloomberg TV live at http://www.bloomberg.com/live

• CleaNYC, the City’s new holistic plan to keep communities clean, will step up street and sidewalk cleaning across the five boroughs
• The City’s newest Staten Island Ferry boat will be named in honor of a fallen hero who saved a fellow solider in Afghanistan
• New mobile-pay technology is coming soon to a metered parking spot near you

Only 19 percent of Americans trust the government to do the right thing most of the time, according to a recent Pew Research poll, down from 77 percent in 1964. This lack of trust isn’t limited to the government — Americans today distrust everything from churches to public schools. Journalist Jeff Greenfield offers an essay on how we became a nation of doubters.

In the quarterback matchup between Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos and Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers, the differences are literally black and white.Watch full episodes of The Daily Show now — no login required: http://www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-sho… The Daily Show with Trevor Noah airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central. Comedy Central 2016 Video